Hi Astro folks, I saw a thread awhile back on postbac opportunities in astro. Can anyone point me to that thread, or any other collection of possible positions?

diagenesis

Absolutely disgusted with the racist BS from anonymous cowards (e.g. @MarkusvanBlunt, TheGolem) towards @AGalacticHawk on X. At 31, @AGalacticHawk is one of the *world's experts* on analyzing starlight to improve our understanding of the the history of the Milky Way Galaxy..

Congrats to 1st-year UC Santa Cruz grad Anna Gagnebin for leading a new modeling paper on the atmosphere of metal-rich giant planet HD 149026b! With a suite of radiative-equilibrium models we suggest a ~10x *smaller* metallicity values than the ~200x from Bean+23.
arxiv.org/abs/2404.17658

Me again on the 'biosignatures are tricky' beat:

DMS, that biosignature gas that was ***maybe*** found on habitable-zone exoplanet K2-18b has now been found on a lifeless comet.

Barring unimaginably weird comet life, DMS must have an abiotic source.

science.org/content/articl…

The lore is that THE Nancy Grace Roman used to knit during talks and still ask the most insightful questions at the end. I'm crocheting (bc my brain doesn't get knitting) through my shifts at Roman WFI TVAC in her honor (hopefully making a granny logo of Roman).

was trying to remember a snippet of a tv show where a woman was describing something while wearing blue and after an hour I realized it was the United flight safety video

There are several exoplanet scientists who knit during talks and it’s honestly sometimes the best part of those talks

Hi yall! I am developing an open resource for applying to post-docs as I go through the process. Please drop any fellowships or positions that are open every year in the comments, and I'll add them to this public spreadsheet! Field specific also welcome :)
shorturl.at/eqwEJ

A week from today, I’ll be at #AbSciCon24 talking about how a casual chat with Lucas Fifer on this University of Washington bench turned into a recently accepted paper in Astrobiology Journal 🦠 Can’t wait to catch up with all of my UW Astrobiology friends! 💜👽

Excited to announce petitRADTRANS Version 3 (pRT3). It comes with lots of quality-of-life improvements, automatic opacity downloading, more opacities, the new SpectralModel class for high-resolution spectra and data preparation, a Planet class, and so much more!

Come join me at Bristol. All astronomy welcome (but I do personally have a bias towards exoplanet 😉). Get in contact if you want to chat or just hear about Bristol !

can’t believe i just got a twitter ad for my own graduate advisor but hopefully i’m far away enough from research academia to say this: stay the hell away from this man. especially if you are a woman. especially if you are a POC. this man ruins careers. DM’s open.

Our Ryugu NanoSIMS paper is now fully published in all its open access glory
sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S00128…

if you're reviewing a paper, criticizing the qualifications of the people writing the paper is probably *not* the way to go even if you take issue with something in the science

sincerely,
someone whose reviewer just did that 🥲

Successfully defended my PhD! Entering my obnoxious well-actually-it's-Dr. era 🥳😈

Paper day on the arXiv today!

We took two beautiful Hubble phase curves of a couple of really special brown dwarfs and ran a ton of retrievals to understand their atmospheres.

arxiv.org/abs/2404.16813

dentist; your teeth are so white
me: thanks! 😃
dentist: no actually that means you’re calcium-deficient
me: oh

there is a Marriottsville *and* a Hyattsville in Maryland?? What’s next Best Westernsville

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